Comments on: Flickr Permanently Deletes Yet Another User Without Warning

By: Ron Scubadiver

Ron Scubadiver — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 02:03:00 +0000

Just got deleted by flickr for “voyeurism”, only no image woud be voyeur under any law in the USA. They seem to have a definition of anything they don’t like.

By: Ladyinvisible

Ladyinvisible — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:07:27 +0000

My account was also deleted unceremoniously exactly because of what Flickr deemed “commercial purposes”. There was no warning via email or on my home page – just zap, and one day, it was gone. All my pictures were gone. Days of uploading vanished. It was a pro account which I paid for, and I find their way of handling customers terrible – that's no way to treat anyone. Send a warning – heck, I didn't even know about this restriction. Who ever reads the fine print?. And that unceremonious message which basically reads like :”You didn't read the fine print – so goodbye. No arguments. This is it. Now you know, you can sign up again with us if you want. We don't care.” This will be their downfall. Apparently, someone must've tipped them off about my account. Flickr is so big. I don't see their staff monitoring everyone's accounts day in and day out and terminating them permanently. I'm looking at Picasa now – it doesn't seem as if they have an issue with photos that may have any form of commercial content. Does anyone have any experience with Picasa?

By: Rachael Towne

Rachael Towne — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:51:10 +0000

I recently had my Flickr account deleted with no warning. I am a stock photographer and included links to my blog in every image description. Sometimes I wrote things like "To purchase this image in high resolution see my blog..."

So I went to log in the other day and discovered that my account was gone. No email. No warning. Nothing. Just gone.

Since my only violation was the commercial issue I figured that had to be why my account was deleted.

I wrote to customer service and pointed out a few Flickr IDs that were very popular and had been using Flickr in this manner for several years.

4 days later I got a response:

Hello,

In joining Flickr, our members agree to abide by the Yahoo!
Terms of Service and the Flickr Community Guidelines:

http://www.flickr.com/guidelines.gne
http://www.flickr.com/terms.gne

"Don't vent your frustrations, rant, or bore the brains out
of other members.
Flickr is not a venue for you to harass, abuse,
impersonate, or intimidate others. If we receive a valid
complaint about your conduct, we'll send you a warning or
terminate your account."

Your account was brought to our attention through Report
Abuse. Upon review, we determined that your content and/or
behavior was in violation and your account was terminated.

Regards,

Flickr Staff

What? Ranting? Harassing and abusing other members? Somebody sent a complaint about my conduct?

If commenting on a few images per day with short compliments like "I love this! Nice colors" etc. is considered bad conduct....wow.

I'm sure it was the commercial issue and that they were just making something up to make me go away.

By: Bob van Ooik

Bob van Ooik — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:25:47 +0000

There is actually a very funny thing about this commercial purpose thing. Flickr has now this agreement with Getty… once you are selected by Getty basically all your work has now a commercial purpose

The way Flickr is deleting and restricting accounts is going in the wrong direction. A couple of my friends have gotten into trouble with them too. And it is really their way of doing that will hurt them the most. See here for instance: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tingreen/4151949878/

By: Bob van Ooik

Bob van Ooik — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:25:47 +0000

By: staffing321

staffing321 — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:09:07 +0000

Dale's not of being a PRO account and how many accounts he's brought in was especially notable to me - I signed up for a PRO account after using a free one and speaking with Dale about it one day.

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By: Diane Sundberg

Diane Sundberg — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:29:15 +0000

This makes me very happy I never paid for a pro acct with Flickr, even when you pay for sites/ areas on the web you’d best make sure you read all of the fine print & read every update if they tell you about it.
Most “free” sites outside Google will have some hook in there somewhere & “you’re” lack of knowing about it is no excuse as they see it. Buyer beware I guess best sums it up.

I’ll warn my camera club about this though as I think some of them get paid for their pics & may get caught in the crosshairs.

By: Diane Sundberg

Diane Sundberg — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:29:00 +0000

I’ll warn my camera club about this though as I think some of them get paid for their pics & may get caught in the crosshairs.

By: Scott Webb

Scott Webb — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:22:50 +0000

I am way too small to be on their radar, but I have posted up a few logos, and link to my website. Flickr is no follow so what’s the harm? Are people putting up the price of some photographs or it’s a bit confusing how they are saying its for commercial. I understand that if a realtor is putting up their house listing that’s a bit off, but I like the idea of marketing.

Guess I better not have specific links to my store website once it’s up!

By: Scott Webb

Scott Webb — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:22:00 +0000

Guess I better not have specific links to my store website once it’s up!